The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

SENATOR MORRILL, has returned to Wash
ington for the winter.
Miss ALICE T.. PARKER has been appointed
postmstress at Royalton.
THE dedication of the new Baptist church
at Georgia Plains occurred Tuesday.
j. p LiscoM's peach crop at West Brat
tleboro amounted to over 100 bushels.
Mrs. LANGTRY appears at the Howard
Opera-house, Burlington, October 3lst
PETER SABouR1N of West Berkshire has
been granted a patent for load-binder.
POTATOES are only ifty-fve cents bushel
in Middlebury, according to the register.
A CONVENTION of Spiritualists will be held
at Walingford November Sd, 4th and 9Th.
THE Brandon National Bank cashed one
of VIM. NJ. Buckeyes checks and is out 500.
CLARK MORRILL, of Hinesburgh raised
$50 bushels of potatoes on one acre of ground.
CAPTAIN AND Mrs HENRY MAYO of Bur-
lington have just celebrated their golden
wedding.
REV. e. II. RANDALL of Poultney has
been extended a call to st, Andrews CnurCh
at st. Johnsbury.
GEORGE SHARPLEY's house in Burlington
was burned recently. Loss nearly covered
by an insurance of Sl,1OO.
DlPHTHERIA has been quite prevalent in
Lincoln for the past six weeks and proved
fatal in a number of cases.
w. b. KERwIN of Westmore was severely
hurt by pitchfork which slid from high
beam and penetrated his lungs.
GEORGE HUSBAND of Highgate has just
been married. 1t appears that he was
husband before he was married.
AT Essex Junction load of hay took fire
from friction caused by the wheel rubbing
against piece of iron just above it.
A MARLBORO farmer boasts of raising an
apple that measured fourteen inches in cir
conference and weighed twenty ounces
HENRY MCLANE, ffteen-year-old boy
left his home in Rutland to seek employ
ment and has not since been heard from
THERE is said to be larger demand for
stores and tenementS at present in St.
Johnsbury than at any time for ten years.
SQUIRE MANN of Rutland has done within
the past six months at his court business
for the state which foots up, in fines and
costs, 5000.
THE annual state convention of the Yer
mont Young Mems Christian Associations
will be held at st. Johnsbury November
18th and 18th.
THE Vermont Construction Company of
st. Adams now employ 127 men at their
works and on the bridges which they are
building at various points.
AT Bennington Center Dewey Durham
fell from scaifold, thirty-five feet to the
ground struck on his shoulders and yet es-
capped with no broken bones.
SIX violators of the prohbitory law were
locked up in the Rutland police station on
Sunday night, and every cell was full, as
well as the occupants thereof.
ANTHONY JEROME, poor fisherman of
Vergennes, has been sent to the work-house
for $50 days for catching a few bull-pout
with drop line. Carry the glad news to
Atkins
THE dwelling, backsmith-shop and barn
of Frank D. Webster at Quechee were
burned recently. The contents were saved.
Loss 81 800; insured in the Vermont Mutual
for $500.
THERE have been eight suits brought
against the Central Vermont by victims of
the Hartford disaster, all returnable in Bos-
ton. The first will be tried some time in
January.
Miss LYDIA PRATT, a sixteen-year-old
daughter of Harrison Pratt, who lives near
Brandon, attempted suicide by taking lau-
danum. She will live and is sorry she
tried to die.
PROFESSOR PETER COLLIER, formerly of
Burlington and the national agricultural
department, has been elected director of
the agricultural experiment station at
Geneva, n. Y.
A SINGULAR result of continued blasting
on Vergehnes hill is the drying up of a
well some 400 or 800 feet distant. The well
was sunk about sixty years ago and had
never before been dry.
j. II. HAYNES, for many years connected
with the Central Vermont railroad, and for
the past year with Cassell & Co., New York,
has accepted position as manager of the
Webster House, Gloucester, Mass.
The residents about Island Pond are ex-
cited just now over the finding of a mysteri-
Gus skeleton. The clothing remained and
also some gold and silver coins, amounting
to Sl2. Apparently the skeleton was that
of an old man.
CARSON LAKE, well-known newspaper
writer, who will be remembered in Vermont
as the campaign editor in 1886 of the Rut-
land Telegram, is engaged to marry French
countess, who is wealthy, and they will
reside in France.
A LIST of names is being prepared of those
who persstently refuse or neglect to pay
their Indebtedness at this office. When
published it will be valuable souvenir for
grocerymen and others who are liable to be
swndled by the same parties.-St Johns
bury CdledOnidn.
H. NJ. CURRIER of Brattleboro, who has
been postal clerk between Springfield and
Newport, has been dropped, and William
Tracy, who has been running between Brat
tleboro and Springfield will succeed him.
Tracy's place will be filled by Daniel Sulli-
van of Brattleboro
CANDAcE PRATT died at Marlboro last
week, aged one hundred one years, two
months and ten days. She was the last of
her generation. Her mother lived to be
ninety-seven years of age and two of the
other children of the family lived to be
ninety-one and ninety-three.
AT the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Vermont & Canada Railroad Com
pany, held at st. Adams on the Goth instant,
the following persons were chosen direct
ors for the ensuing year: John l.. Mason,
Jed p. Clark, j. Gregory Smith, Edward G..
Smith, Thomas III. Perkins, Augustus Russ
and William G. Shaw.
The fountain given to St. Adams by ex-
Governor Smith has a basin fifty feet in
diameter inclOsed by hammered coping,
with base of Ryegate granite. The bronze
stands twenty-four feet above the basin,
while at the base of the shaft are four hand
some groups, similar to those in the Louvre,
as a representation of the arts and sciences.
The structure weighs $1,000 pounds and
stands in the public park.
The trustees of the Soldiers Home last
week voted to amend the bylaws of the
home so that hereafter the annual meetings
will be held on the second Tuesday in Sep
TENDER. The accounts of the secretary and
treasurer and the finance committee are to
be rendered to the auditing committee in
August in each year, including all transac-
tons up to July 31st 1t was also deter
mined to enlarge the powers of the finance
committee. 1t had already been decided to
enlarge the home at Bennington.
THE anti-probation doctrine after death
has already shown fruits in the newspaper
world. The Free Press, in view of this, an
nnunpa1 Yesterday that hereafter the pripa